Mechanical alloying of iron-coated NbC and Si in stirred ...
Retsch planetary ball mill prior to mechanical alloying in a stirred media mill. The aim of this step was to grind the feed iron-coated NbC down to finer than 63 µm size. The container of the mill was made of steel and filled with steel balls. The grinding ball size was 40 mm, and there were three of them in the mill chamber.
